LingakuFrequency rank: 39,878. – 40,464.
- downpour; pouring rain; heavy rain; pelting rain; cloudburst
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
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- downpour; pouring rain; heavy rain; pelting rain; cloudburst
This refers to a very heavy and intense rain, typically occurring suddenly and making it difficult to see or hear due to the volume of rain.
Generated collocations (experimental)
どしゃぶり土砂降りになるto pour (rain heavily)どしゃぶり土砂降りのなか中をあるく歩くto walk in a downpourどしゃぶり土砂降りのあめ雨heavy rainどしゃぶり土砂降りのとき時during a downpourどしゃぶり土砂降りのよほう予報forecast for heavy rainどしゃぶり土砂降りでがいしゅつ外出できないcannot go out due to pouring rainどしゃぶり土砂降りのあと後after the downpourどしゃぶり土砂降りにそなえる備えるto prepare for a downpourどしゃぶり土砂降りのよる夜a night of heavy rainとつぜん突然のどしゃぶり土砂降りsudden downpour
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When it continues raining cats and dogs for a long while, laundrymen have a hard time doing their work.
Frequently clear and balmy weather deteriorates and it soon rains cats and dogs.
An umbrella is useful in a mild rain, but when it rains cats and dogs an umbrella is of little help.
Judging from the present look of the sky, we may have a downpour any moment.
That day, the rain that had been falling since morning seemed as if it was about to stop around the time that the streetlamps are lit, but as night came it suddenly turned into pouring rain.